Been busy, busy here. I tend to feel like I am starting to go in circles and that I am a half square triangle! Don’t you just hate those things sometimes! the hst’s I mean. I am working on the Star Crazy quilt trying to not get left behind in the dust and keep up with the monthly obligation of the monthly assignment. But ran into a problem. The instructions right off the bat tell you to make sure that you have your printer settings at full size no scaling. I checked– it was right – no scaling, full size. Well something is off because I started to make my hst’s and then decided to put one star together just to see what it looked like and the hst’s were too small! Not by a lot but enough to make a difference if you know what I mean. After a lot of measuring to see what the problem was I found that the print out for the paper piecing of triangles is 1/16th of an inch off – too small.
After some playing around with it I think I have it figured out – not the printer – my patterns – I am having to make all of my seams less than 1/4 inch if I want to use the patterns and not have to cut a bunch of strips ect., to do it the other method. So by the end of the day I managed to have some of my half square triangles finished and I needed a break so quit for the rest of the evening.
my scrappy color choices for the beginning of this part of the quilt and a pile of triangles that I will get the paper off of this evening, press and then square up because now they need squaring up because I have made the seams less they are not all the same size - but they will be size they are supposed to be!!
I have been continuing to work on my other quilt that has 4 patches and appliqued circles. It is coming along nicely!
My box of 328 four patches. I only needed (I think) 317 but I went ahead and made some extra - just in case needed to swap out because of colors next to each other that you don't want next to each other 
You can see that the Moda Sampler box is starting to look empty compared to the full box I started with. The two zip lock bags contain a total of 220 appliqued circles, about a hundred left to do. They are actually going rather quickly (until today that is when I devoted almost a whole day to Star Crazy)
I did take a little time off today to clean house and to meet two old friends for lunch. I used to be on a bowling team – Mike and I together – we quit bowling about 4 years ago and I’m afraid I have just about lost touch with some old friends. Time flies doesn’t it, you don’t mean to neglect friends but if you don’t have a lot in common other than one activity you tend to do so it seems. We had a good visit over Chinese Food and then I got back home to work on these hst’s!
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